*Very interesting indeed. Mounting a 20 GB [[w:USB|USB]] 2.0 [[w:External_hard_drive|External Drive]] over a [[w:100baseT|100baseT]] switch using the Startport software from Rocket Division Software on a Windows XP computer I was able to get a sustained 4 Megabyte/sec or 32 MB/s transfer rate..... not too bad. I'll have to try it with a EXT3 block device and a Unix computer. [[User:Ramuk|Ramuk]] 01:36, 29 August 2006 (EDT)

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*Very interesting indeed. Mounting a 20 GB [[w:USB|USB]] 2.0 [[w:External_hard_drive|External Drive]] over a [[w:100baseT|100baseT]] switch using the StarPort software from Rocket Division Software on a Windows XP computer I was able to get a sustained 4 Megabyte/sec or 32 MB/s transfer rate..... not too bad. I'll have to try it with a EXT3 block device and a Unix computer. [[User:Ramuk|Ramuk]] 01:36, 29 August 2006 (EDT)

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Comparision

This isn't really a fair comparision for cost at all, after all Coraid's devices are SATA and Gigabit Ethernet optimized.
But still it's a fun comparision to see what opensource hardware and software can get you.

At 1000Mb/s / 8bits/Byte / 15 kuroboxes = 8.33 MB/Sec needed in transfer rate per kurobox RAIDed together to completely soak a 1Gb/s ethernet connection. Seems like it could be doable expecially with XFS....hmmmmmmmm

Transfer speeds

Very interesting indeed. Mounting a 20 GB USB 2.0 External Drive over a 100baseT switch using the StarPort software from Rocket Division Software on a Windows XP computer I was able to get a sustained 4 Megabyte/sec or 32 MB/s transfer rate..... not too bad. I'll have to try it with a EXT3 block device and a Unix computer. Ramuk 01:36, 29 August 2006 (EDT)